Election 2012: What should we do now?

Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 11:30 AM.

The election is over, and little change can be expected in the direction of our country. All the efforts of Christian leaders and concerned Americans to make a change did not accomplish the goal. But perhaps God has a plan for our nation and by calling on Him to do just what He will not do, we may be fighting the wrong fight.

God chastises whom he loves because he knows: pride comes before a fall, and humbleness and brokenness is the only condition He responds to. Cries of “Yes we can” depict the attitude of independence and self-sufficiency and are the exact opposite of the King of kings saying: “Without me, you can do nothing.” Nations will be humbled by a God who will not share His glory with people relying on their own strength.

Our destiny is in God’s hands, not ours, and He may be using Obama like a pawn on His chessboard to humble the U.S. A crisis beyond anything America has ever seen may be the only way to heal it from idolatry and re-align itself with the Kingdom of God.

We are not to accept the posture of inevitability and do nothing but to endeavor to bring our people to recognize their acceptance of evil, learn again to hate sin, demand repentance, and fear the Lord. The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing, and in America good men have yielded power to evil men. Evil rules when evil men make the rules. Let us pray that our leaders in Congress will stand up for what is right and good for our nation.

The U.S. needs to experience a great awakening before it experiences a rude awakening. The nation needs to remember its heritage in God and recalibrate its moral compass of right and wrong. Evil is seeing moral issues in shades of gray, not in black and white.

It may be difficult for Christians to identify some positions where they have gradually gone from the gold standard of moral truth – the Holy Bible – to acceptance of the secular gray. Billy Graham in a prayer this year has pointed out a number of ways that we have come to call evil “good” and reversed our values. This is a quote from his prayer: “We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from sin and set us free. Amen!”

The election is over, and little change can be expected in the direction of our country. All the efforts of Christian leaders and concerned Americans to make a change did not accomplish the goal. But perhaps God has a plan for our nation and by calling on Him to do just what He will not do, we may be fighting the wrong fight.

God chastises whom he loves because he knows: pride comes before a fall, and humbleness and brokenness is the only condition He responds to. Cries of “Yes we can” depict the attitude of independence and self-sufficiency and are the exact opposite of the King of kings saying: “Without me, you can do nothing.” Nations will be humbled by a God who will not share His glory with people relying on their own strength.

Our destiny is in God’s hands, not ours, and He may be using Obama like a pawn on His chessboard to humble the U.S. A crisis beyond anything America has ever seen may be the only way to heal it from idolatry and re-align itself with the Kingdom of God.

We are not to accept the posture of inevitability and do nothing but to endeavor to bring our people to recognize their acceptance of evil, learn again to hate sin, demand repentance, and fear the Lord. The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing, and in America good men have yielded power to evil men. Evil rules when evil men make the rules. Let us pray that our leaders in Congress will stand up for what is right and good for our nation.

The U.S. needs to experience a great awakening before it experiences a rude awakening. The nation needs to remember its heritage in God and recalibrate its moral compass of right and wrong. Evil is seeing moral issues in shades of gray, not in black and white.

It may be difficult for Christians to identify some positions where they have gradually gone from the gold standard of moral truth – the Holy Bible – to acceptance of the secular gray. Billy Graham in a prayer this year has pointed out a number of ways that we have come to call evil “good” and reversed our values. This is a quote from his prayer: “We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from sin and set us free. Amen!”

We have been content in the past to let our elected representatives in Washington make decisions on our part, only to find that our best interests were not represented. We do have a responsibility to contribute to decision-making and must stay better informed, support those who have the best plan, insist on compliance to their oath to defend the Constitution, and keep them reminded that they are our employees.